◄ Job 20:7 ►
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Good News Translation
but they will be blown away like dust. Those who used to know them will wonder where they have gone.

New Revised Standard Version
they will perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’

Contemporary English Version
they will disappear like dust, and those who knew them will wonder what happened.

New American Bible
Yet he perishes forever like the dung he uses for fuel, and onlookers say, “Where is he?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

perish

1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

2 Kings 9:37 And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the earth in the field of Jezrahel; so that they who pass by shall say: Is this that same Jezabel?

Psalm 83:10 Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

shall say

Job 14:10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
…6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds: 7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:…
Cross References
Job 4:20
From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

Job 7:10
Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more

Job 8:18
If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.

Job 14:20
Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.

Job 27:19
The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

Isaiah 41:12
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.

Obadiah 1:4
The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Job 20:6
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